iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 17 Models to Feature Notable Camera Upgrades: Kuo

Apple will equip the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max — the corporate’s purported Professional fashions anticipated to launch later this 12 months — with an upgraded digicam setup, based on TF Securities Worldwide analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who claims that Apple will improve the ultra-wide angle digicam on this 12 months’s Professional fashions, whereas the smaller iPhone 16 Professional can be geared up with the tetraprism telephoto digicam setup discovered on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. The corporate can be tipped to equip the iPhone 17 sequence with an upgraded selfie digicam.

In a Medium post, Kuo states that Apple will improve the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max from a 12-megapixel sensor to a 48-megapixel sensor — the sensor is anticipated to output 12-megapixel pictures which might be pixel binned, based on Kuo, however the {hardware} improve will result in improved picture high quality in comparison with the iPhone 15 Pro fashions.

The analyst says that Taiwan-based Genius Digital Optical can be a serious provider of the ultra-wide angle lens on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions, and the agency can be on observe to supply the tetraprism telephoto lens for the smaller iPhone 16 Professional mannequin, bringing its optical zoom efficiency on par with the bigger Professional mannequin.

Final 12 months, Apple geared up the iPhone 15 Professional with an upgraded telephoto digicam that gives as much as 5x optical zoom. Earlier leaks counsel the iPhone 16 Professional will also be equipped with related digicam {hardware} that allows the identical performance. The iPhone 16 Professional can be anticipated to sport a larger 6.27-inch display, which ought to drive extra customers — an estimated improve of 5 to 10 % — to improve when the cellphone arrives, based on Kuo.

Kuo additionally predicts that Apple will improve the iPhone 17 sequence with a brand new selfie digicam from a 12-megapixel sensor with a 5P lens to a 24-megapixel digicam with a 6P lens, enhancing the picture high quality “considerably”. As the first provider for the entrance cameras on the iPhone, Genius’ income is anticipated to rise considerably, Kuo says, as the value of a 6P lens is 100% to120 % greater than 5P lenses.